Odd problem

[Kangae]

Hello, I was wondering if someone here would be more knowledgeable (and perhaps cheaper) than the Microsoft website.

Just recently (last wednesday to be exact) I replaced my old motherboard (ASUS A7V600-X) with a newer one (ASUS A7V880) because my old one had been damaged in a power surge and the ethernet ports no longer worked.

Anyway, the first chance I got I tried to play Planetside, and within about 3 mins, it crashed, and it didn't give me any error messages or anything, just all of the sudden the desktop appeared as if there was no game happening at all. Then I tried an older game I had installed, Deus Ex, that game crashed much the same way, except an error popped up that said "GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT".

I had a problem similar to this back when I first got this computer, but that was because the processor speed was set at an unusually low speed, so we just turned it back up and every thing was fine. Now the processor is at the fastest speed it is reccomended to run at and games are still crashing like this. We tried to overclock it slightly but for some reason the changes wouldn't take effect, it just always went right back to the old setting.

We tried changing motherboards 3 more times, we changed it to a chaintech one (I cant remember the kind) and we got a new unused ASUS A7V600-X and put that in there too, and the computer just turned itself off every time it started.

I am running Windows XP Pro sp1, with an ATI Sapphire Radeon 9800 graphics card, at this moment I have the ASUS 880, and I have an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ processor, and a 550W power supply. I figured if I gave you as much info about my computer as possible it would be easier to solve this problem. (and we tried to replace the processor too with an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ but that didn't work either).

Anyway, thanks in advance for any help you might offer me.

[Damnit]

Make sure the RAM you're inserting is supported with your motherboard. Check your bios for any incorrect settings as well. I had a similar problem on my ASUS P4G8XDeluxe board. Wasted a whole month figuring out what the heck is causing the bluescreen reboots.

Luckily I connected my speakers to the onboard sound chip(line-out) and restarted the PC. Guess what, the voice system on the Asus motherboard told me that my RAM wasn't connected properly. To this day, zero issues about bluescreen boots.

Please try the same(as you have an ASUS Motherboard). Hook your speakers to the onboard sound chip(if it has it) and boot your PC. The voice system might clue you in on the problem.

Another problem could be related to heat. Any of the PC components inside your case when overheat cause the reboot. See if you have proper ventilation in your case. And check if your HDD's, CPU etc are properly getting cooled. Check your GPU too while at it.

Well, that's what I can tell you from my experience. Good Luck!

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